“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”
— Tom Stoppard
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Category: freedom
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“The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe – responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.”
— Tom Stoppard
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Category: power
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“I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.”
— Tom Stoppard
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Category: change
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“I write out of my intellectual experience.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.”
— Tom Stoppard
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“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
— Tom Stoppard
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Category: age
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